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<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="1599800207934951.png" alt="5.png" src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20200911/1599800207934951.png"/></p><p>The AGMA Foundation Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2020 Scholarship Awards. Each fall, the Foundation awards $5,000 scholarships at the Undergraduate/Graduate levels, and scholarships of up to $2,500 at the Associate/Technical school levels. The scholarship program delivers employees directly to the gear industry with a full 87% of graduated scholarship recipients now employed in the gear/power transmission field.</p><p><br/></p><p>“The Foundation Board faced tough choices this year,” said Dean Burrows, president and CEO of Gear Motions and chairman of the AGMA Foundation Board of Trustees. “In a typical year, the Foundation will award 10 or more scholarships. This year the Foundation received 29 excellent applicants, that is a record number, but was forced by financial constraints to reduce the number of scholarships to eight.”</p><p><br/></p><p>The foundation stopped their broad fundraising in 2017 to conduct a comprehensive strategic planning process.&nbsp;</p><p><br/></p><p>“Two years into a successful strategic plan, the Foundation planned to kickoff a major fundraising campaign at the 2020 AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting,” continued Burrows. “Covid-19 canceled the meeting and while the major campaign is on hold, the Foundation will conduct smaller scale fundraising this fall to raise the funds needed to grant scholarships in 2021.”</p><p><br/></p><p>The 2020 AGMA Foundation Scholarship Recipients with their school and company affiliations are:</p><p><br/></p><p>Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients</p><p>Joshua Biddle, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Allison Transmission</p><p>Mitch McDermaid, Western Michigan University, Eaton Corporation</p><p>Jared Minski, Penn State University Erie, Ameridrives a subsidiary of Altra Industrial Motion</p><p>Alexander Minton, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Gearing Systems</p><p><br/></p><p>Graduate Scholarship Recipients</p><p>David Ajoku, Carnegie Mellon University, Tesla</p><p>Abolfazl Hosseinpour, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Teaching Assistant</p><p>Connor Wilson, Purdue University, Linimar-McLaren Engineering</p><p>Kevin Qiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Tesla and Trexo Robotics</p><p><br/></p><p>The 2020 winner of the Linda and Bipin Doshi Scholarship Award is Connor Wilson of Purdue University. The Doshis, formerly of Schafer Industries, generously established an endowment to fund a scholarship for a top AGMA Foundation scholarship applicant.&nbsp;</p><p><br/></p>